FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) and his counter-terrorist task force, Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman), Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper), and Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner), travel to Saudi Arabia after terrorist bomb was detonated inside an American housing compound in Riyadh. The team meet with opposition from the Saudi authorities, who want to solve the crime on their own terms, but luckily they find an ally in the Saudi Colonel Al-Ghazi (Ashraf Barhoum) as they work together to fight a common foe.